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communism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia communism Political outlook based on the principle...bourgeoisie by the proletariat and so the collapse of the system itself. This would be replaced...Russian Revolution (1917). Stalin turned communism into an ideology to justify the use of...
Post–Cold War Era
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...social and cultural life.The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet...hostility burst forth with the collapse of central authority and violence...value in the struggle against communism now found themselves vulnerable...
Mugabe, Robert
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...as executive president. A convinced Marxist, he hoped to establish a one-party state; however, with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe he agreed to abandon his plan in 1991 but insisted on redistributing land to benefit Africans...
Cold War
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...although indirect confrontation occurred in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. the Cold War ended with the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1990.
Hensher, Philip
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...House of Commons at the time of Mrs Thatcher's defeat. Pleasured (1998) is set in Berlin just before the collapse of communism, and offers an unsettling, occasionally comic account of lives caught up in urban terrorism, espionage, and...
KGB
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...liberalization under Gorbachev, its chief was a leader of the attempted coup against him in 1991. After the collapse of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union, it underwent extensive reform.
Europe
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Roman civilizations. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire...World Wars and the rise of communism, Europe began to lose some...deterrent to the spread of communism; the Warsaw Pact was its...cooperation. The collapse of Soviet communism ...
Slovak Republic
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...the Soviet invasion that same year. The dramatic collapse of Czech communism in 1989, spurred calls for independence. The Movement...EconomyBefore 1948 the economy was primarily agrarian. Communism developed industry. Post-independence governments...
Bulgaria
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Bulgarization’ of Turks intensified. With the collapse of Soviet communism, Zhivkov's presidency (1971–89) came to an...The BSP won the 1994 elections, but economic collapse and mass protests led the government to resign in...
Castro (Ruz), Fidel
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Soviet Union, the Cuban economy was heavily dependent on Soviet economic aid. The combined effect of the collapse of European communism and the continuing US trade embargo dramatically worsened the Cuban economy, forcing Castro to introduce...

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collapse
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...slightest pressure would collapse it | fig. many people tend to collapse the distinction between the...space: [intr.] some cots collapse down to fit into a bag...undertaking: the collapse of communism. ∎ a physical or mental...
communism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...work of Karl MARX, who saw communism as the final outcome of the proletarian...fully implemented, Soviet communism was a society whose every...this questioning of Soviet communism spread to Eastern Europe and...market economy.Following the collapse of the ...
Politburo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...for an elite cadre of leaders to guide the revolution. Once Communism had been established, it continued in its function as the...Eastern Bloc countries, it was largely abandoned with the collapse of Communism 1988–9.
IMF
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...states in Asia and Africa. Its significance was further enhanced with the retreat of Communism from these continents in the 1980s, and the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. As a result of these developments...
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...were raised in underdeveloped orphanages. With the collapse of Communism elsewhere in Eastern Europe, not even his nationalism...proportions, saved his much-hated regime from collapse. With his wife, he fled the growing unrest, but...
nationalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...to take account of national communities, but its collapse from 1933 showed how fragile and flawed this had...geopolitical considerations of the two superpowers. The collapse of Communism and the Soviet Union took the lid off, and resulted...
Russia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...steppe, and fertile areas.Economy Since the collapse of communism and the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has embarked...European Russia in the 13th century.Following the collapse of Mongol rule in the late 14th century, the principality...
collectivism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...ownership did not provide incentives for individual achievement and hence they tended to be inefficient. With the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, and the prevalence of neo-liberal economic doctrine emphasizing individual thrift, the...
Communist Party, Japan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...declined. The JCP's position has been weakened by internal squabbling as well as ideological shifts following the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. In the 2000 elections, the JCP obtained 20 out of 480 seats in the House of...
Medgyessy, Peter
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Minister of Hungary, 2002– Born in Budapest, Medgyessy joined the Communist Workers' Party, but following the collapse of communism in 1989 he quit politics. He became a prominent banker, building up Paribras Hungary and becoming Chairman of...

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The Collapse of Communism
Magazine article from: Aerospace Power Journal The Collapse of Communism edited by Lee Edwards. Hoover Institution...and discount the negative impact communism had on the "basic needs and dispositions" (197) of its subjects. The Collapse of Communism studies one of the greatest events...
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers ...William E. Watson. The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union...s The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union...communist system or its collapse. Watson's definition...overview of the collapse of ...
Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism.
Magazine article from: West European Politics ...examine the consequences the collapse of communism has had on them. Both collections...starting-point (the collapse of communism) it was inevitable that most...suggests that all the collapse of communism brought forth was an ...
POPE'S NEW ENCYCLICAL PRAISES MARKET ECONOMY, WITH LIMITS SAYS INJUSTICES...
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...Thursday against letting the collapse of communism blind them to the need to repair...Italian, is the collapse of communism in Pope John Paul II's native...whether, "after the failure of communism," the market economy should...
Better green than red? In some ways the collapse of communism is even harder...
Magazine article from: The Atlantic ...year and next, just as communism in Eastern Europe was collapsing...that the Seine plant and communism as a system of government...historic loss for French communism, as dire a psychological blow as the collapse in the East. IF PORTUGAL...
Why did communism collapse?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...economies of Asia. In "The Collapse of Communism: Approaches for a Future History...to recognize that the fall of communism resulted from stresses and strains...West as well. The crises of communism were to a considerable extent...
THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM EASTERN BLOC UPHEAVALS ARE LESSONS FOR THE...
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...went undone or were badly done. Communism collapsed politically because...economic problems that brought down communism will continue. If privatization...allies is that the political collapse of communism has discredited the socialist...
Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Collapse of Communism Examined by...
PR Newswire ...Paul II and Ronald Reagan in the collapse of Communism will be assessed by former Reagan...Ronald Reagan and The Collapse of Communism: An Historic Confluence" is...Solidarity Movement and the demise of Communism in Poland. A decade later ...
Central Europe, eight years after the collapse of communism.
Magazine article from: Quadrant ...some good news for your eight years after the collapse of communism in Central Europe, communism will not return. Even though there is nostalgia...of social security and personal security, communism will not return. Where does this nostalgia...
Gorbachev and the collapse of communism.
Magazine article from: History Review ...socialist system brought its collapse -- in the Eastern European...needed, it came with the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989...conceded that the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe had not...economy.' Gorbachev equated communism, in ...

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